Exodus 4:2
Good News Translation
So the LORD asked him, "What are you holding?" "A walking stick," he answered.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD answered, "What's that in your hand?" "A walking stick," Moses replied.

New American Bible
The LORD said to him: What is in your hand? “A staff,” he answered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.

a rod.

Exodus 4:17,20 And take this rod in thy hand. wherewith thou shalt do the signs. . . .

Genesis 30:37 And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.

Leviticus 27:32 Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd's rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the Lord.

Psalm 110:2 The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

Isaiah 11:4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Micah 7:14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old.

Context
Moses' Staff
1Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee. 2Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.3And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:17
And take this rod in thy hand. wherewith thou shalt do the signs.

Exodus 4:20
Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.

Exodus 7:9
When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned into a serpent.

Exodus 7:15
Go to him in the morning, behold he will go out to the waters: and thou shalt stand to meet him on the ' bank of the river: and thou shalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.

Exodus 4:1
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